On the collapsed prosecutions after Orgreave, South Yorkshire police told the Guardian in a statement: "We note the NUM's intention and will await any decision from the IPCC.
The home secretary, Amber Rudd, did not look at evidence held by South Yorkshire police on its operation at Orgreave during the 1984 miners strike and the subsequent collapsed prosecutions against 95 men before she turned down an inquiry into the events, the Guardian has learned.
A major step has been taken towards an inquiry into the tactics of South Yorkshire police at the 1984 Orgreave confrontation with striking miners, and alleged perjury by officers in collapsed prosecutions a year later, after the force's acting chief said he would welcome it.
"It collapses the prosecution's foundation of evidence".
Jendayi Frazer, America's top Africa official until 2009, summed up what many observers were thinking when she said that the "case against him is close to collapse".The prosecution sounds more hopeful that it will nail William Ruto, his running mate, for allegedly stirring up the Kalenjin after the same election.
But under cross-examination in the trial's 10th hearing, the committee's three representatives admitted they did not know whether the journalists' work had endangered national security – collapsing the prosecution's case, and raising the question of whether the committee had written their own report in the first place.
The families of the bombing victims said they felt "devastatingly let down" after the prosecution collapsed.
Once again an expensive public prosecution collapsed, this time as the main witness Florim Gashi was found to have been paid £10,000 by the paper.
With this gag order in effect, and with many documents in the case still classified, much remains unknown about why the prosecution collapsed.
The private prosecution collapsed and at the time - the law has since been changed - the double-jeopardy rule left the men immune to future prosecution even if new evidence emerged.
